CONGRATULATIONS, HOUGLAND LAB, OLD AND NEW! The ligand paper is accepted! This labor of love is now in publication. So many colleagues and collaborators made this possible and we thank everyone who worked on it for your support and patience. On to the next one! Link
We welcome Brianna (Bri) Gaspar to the Hougland lab for the Summer. She joins us from Los Angeles, California where she attends Loyola Marymount University as an undergraduate. We are looking forward to a great Summer of research. Link
Congratulations to Mariah Pierce and James Hougland for publishing “A rising tide lifts all MBOATs: recent progress in structural and functional understanding of membrane bound O-acyltransferases” in the journal Frontiers in Physiology. And of course, we celebrated with a lab coffee outing. Link
We would like to welcome Katherine (Kate) Brand, a first-year student in the Department of Chemistry, to our laboratory group. She joins us from SUNY Oswego where she did her undergraduate work. We look forward to working with her over the next few years as she pursues her PhD degree. Link
The Lab ran another race together this past Fall. The Burn Run is hosted by the East Syracuse Fire Department and raises money for the Burn Foundation of Central New York. This year, we had participants running both the 5K and the 10K as well as a few walkers. This was also the debut for our new lab t-shirts. We ended our time together with much-deserved donuts. Stay tuned for more lab outings! Link
Sadie Novak and Dr. James Hougland attended the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago in August. Sadie presented her poster entitled GOAT Herding: The Intracellular Trafficking Pathway for Ghrelin O-acyltransferase. She was also awarded the Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Award for this meeting. Well done! Link
Grace and Nico said goodbye to Syracuse University, but not before they presented their Summer research at the Syracuse SOURCE Summer Symposium. Thank you for all your hard work this Summer and we wish you all the best in your last year of undergrad. Link
Dr. Hougland co-organized and attended the FASEB Protein Lipidation Meeting in Saxtons River, VT with four of our graduate students. Our newest student, Andrea Sprague-Getsy, attended the conference and Mariah Pierce, Sadie Novak, and Amber Ford presented posters of their graduate work on ghrelin O-acyltransferase solubilization, cellular trafficking and biomarker viability. Link
